This may have been overlooked, but the Boeing board of directors did Wells Fargo a big favor in 2019; it provided Wells' directors with real competition in the race for the worst failure of leadership among major American corporate boards. The failure came, of course, from an epic disaster: two crashes of Boeing's 737 Max airliners, costing the lives of 346 passengers and crew members...

SEATTLE -- Amazon is now the No. 1 target of activist shareholders. The Seattle-based global commerce and technology giant was pushed past ExxonMobil and Chevron in 2019, receiving the most shareholder resolutions focused on corporate environmental, social and governance issues. That was by design...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The activist investor who bought a sizable stake in Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. last year nominated on Monday four candidates to the company's board of directors, including himself. Mick McGuire, principal at Marcato Capital Management, said in a statement that he made the nominations because a makeover of the board last fall didn't go far enough in addressing problems he sees at the chain of sports-themed restaurants...

As a new president approaches Inauguration Day, the technology industry is staring into the unknown. Donald Trump's campaign had no position on supporting the startup community. No plan for dealing with artificial intelligence. No policies governing open data. And that doesn't even get to the heart of the industry's concerns about his social policy agenda ...